{"id":9021,"date":"2011-10-12T09:45:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T20:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=9021"},"modified":"2016-05-05T19:47:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T07:47:03","slug":"guest-post-on-sf-signal-looking-at-the-stars-why-epic-fantasy-keeps-speaking-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/10\/12\/guest-post-on-sf-signal-looking-at-the-stars-why-epic-fantasy-keeps-speaking-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post on SF Signal&#8212;&#8220;Looking at the Stars: Why Epic Fantasy Keeps &#8216;Speaking&#8217; To Us&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/04\/16\/a-list-of-my-interviews-focusing-on-nz-writers-sff\/sfsignallogov4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25218\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-25218 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sfsignalLogov4-300x43.jpg\" alt=\"sfsignalLogov4\" width=\"300\" height=\"43\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sfsignalLogov4-300x43.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sfsignalLogov4-150x21.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/sfsignalLogov4.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I have a guest post on <a href=\"http:\/\/sfsignal.com\/\"><strong>SF Signal <\/strong><\/a>today:<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2011\/10\/guest_post_helen_lowe_on_why_epic_fantasy_speaks_to_us\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Looking at the Stars: Why Epic Fantasy Keeps &#8216;Speaking&#8217; To Us<\/strong>. <\/a><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>&#8220;I live in New Zealand, which although recently re-cast as Middle Earth by Sir Peter Jackson, is still very much \u2018the far side of the world.\u2019 Arguably the only places further away from world hubs such as New York and London, Paris and Beijing, Berlin and Tokyo, would be Tierra del Fuego and Antarctica-which leaves New Zealanders with two fundamental choices: to turn inward, or look outward to the larger world.<span id=\"more-46572\"> <\/span>It strikes me that part of the enduring appeal of epic fantasy may be because it offers a similar choice&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To read the rest, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2011\/10\/guest_post_helen_lowe_on_why_epic_fantasy_speaks_to_us\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a guest post on SF Signal today: . Looking at the Stars: Why Epic Fantasy Keeps &#8216;Speaking&#8217; To Us. &#8220;I live in New Zealand, which although recently re-cast as Middle Earth by Sir Peter Jackson, is still very much \u2018the far side of the world.\u2019 Arguably the only places further away from world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sf-signal-guest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9021"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32168,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9021\/revisions\/32168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}